Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/07/17/15:03:42
"Castle, Eric" wrote:
>
> just how cygwin, including processing files in perl, uses either \r\n or \n
> for line termination?
Yes, and how text files are created, by default.
> I don't recall the old installer program (called full.exe) ask that question
> back on B18.
It's a fairly new feature.
> Any recomendation on which type to use? I've been choosing "dos" but not
> sure what that is really doing vs choosing unix.
I've had perl scripts copied over from the Linux box break because I was
using chop() to get rid of line endings instead of chomp(). If you tell
Cygwin to expect Unix line endings, that problem doesn't occur, but
then, maybe you have a lot of DOS text files already. If I try to use
Cygwin on my Visual C++ source files, for example, I need to be using
DOS text mode.
That's why you're given a choice -- one answer isn't right for everyone.
Hmmm, an *ix lover at Intuit...so when's Quicken for Linux coming out?
:)
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